LORI Loughlin who starred alongside John Stamos on Full House reckons it was just a case of bad timing, which stopped the on screen lovers hooking up in real life.

During an interview with Yahoo’s Daily Shot, Lori Loughlin, who played Becky, said, “I was married at the time I was doing the show to my first husband. Literally, when I was getting divorced, he met Rebecca [Romijn].”

Loughlin married her first husband, Michael Burns, in 1989, just two years after the hit show premiered. (The two divorced in 1996.)

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Stamos, who played perennial fan favourite Uncle Jesse, married model Romijn in 1998, but they split seven years later. Loughlin has been married to her second husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli for nearly 17 years.

The actress said she still has a close relationship with Stamos, and it seems the feeling is mutual.

In a 2013 interview, he even referred to Loughlin as “the one that got away”.

“That was very nice of him to say that,” said Loughlin. When probed on who was the “hottest” in the Full House crew, Loughlin didn’t hesitate. “John,” she said. Aww.